graylog/graylog-forwarder repository overview

⁠Graylog Forwarder Docker Image

The latest stable version of Graylog Forwarder is 7.6.

⁠What is Graylog?

Graylog is a centralized logging solution that enables aggregating and searching through logs. It provides a powerful query language, a processing pipeline for data transformation, alerting abilities, and much more. It is fully extensible through a REST API. Add-ons can be downloaded from the Graylog Marketplace⁠.

⁠Image Details

There are several different image variants available, on platforms linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. All images run on Ubuntu 24.04.

⁠graylog/graylog-forwarder

This image runs the Graylog Forwarder⁠. Documentation on the Forwarder can be found here⁠.

The latest stable version is 7.4, with support for Java 21 on platforms linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

⁠Architecture

Take a look at the minimal Graylog architecture⁠ to get the big picture of a Graylog setup. In essence, Graylog needs to talk to MongoDB to store configuration data and Elasticsearch to store the actual log data.

⁠Documentation

Documentation for Graylog Forwarder is hosted here⁠. Please read through the docs and familiarize yourself with the functionality.

⁠License

Graylog Forwarder itself is a commercial product.

This Docker image is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE⁠.